What drives me, personally, to organize these trips, is my infinite love for Tango.

My intention is to share that love with the participants of my group. Some participants who come on my trips are my students, and some of this students are fervent milongueros and milongueras like me. But not all, so the organization of the tour accommodates different amounts of passion for Tango.

Classes with the best teachers.

On the tour, many classes are included, with the best teachers available. I also take you to milongas where I am a regular and with the best level of dance.

Of course, I understand that not all participants have the same level of engagement with Tango, so I offer other alternatives in relation to milongas, in which the level of dance is not so high and those who are interested in having a good time without caring for an excellent level of dancing can go there with my assistance.

Tango requires that you know it in its entirety.

I also organize group outings during the day, between 10:30 am and 2 pm, to explore the city, its culture, and places that are relevant to the history of Tango. In my humble opinion, Tango requires that you know it in its entirety, everything that is related to this beautiful art, which is also a way of life. Being in Buenos Aires is your chance to observe this way of life up close.

There will also be time to take private lessons.

In addition to the group classes included in the tour, there will also be time for participants with a higher level of commitment to Tango to take private lessons. Learning to dance Tango requires private lessons, working interpersonally with your teacher, where individual particularities can be taken into account.

The tour itinerary is full, but flexible.

The tour itinerary is full, but flexible. Participants are welcome to rest when needed by choosing to skip a class or milonga in order to sleep in late or go to bed early. However, I am committed to the itinerary and will always be there.

Although I teach primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area, not all the participants on my trip are from the San Francisco Bay Area, or even the United States. I encourage the participation of people interested in Tango from all over the world.

I typically organize my trips around March and October every year. The next Buenos Aires tour dates are March 15 to 24, 2019; and then September 27 to October 6.

Tango is a multidimensional form of art.

Most see it primarily as a dance.

Dance involves much more than an activity reduced to visiting a dance studio.

This is absolutely true: it is a dance.

However, what I consider unavoidable to understand is that dance involves much more than an activity reduced to visiting a dance studio, practicing a series of body movements and gestures that later are going to be repeated more or less by heart, with attention only to the body movements, without any consideration of the music (and by “music” I mean: listening to every musical note, beat and silence of it, knowing the name of the song, who plays it, who composed the song, the general history of all of it and all of them ..), the environment in which the dance is going to be performed (in case of tango: the “milongas”), the social aspects of it (the codes of behavior at the milongas, its ethics and aesthetics), and the role that the dancer (as an individual participating in that whole approach to dancing) is going to take.

If I am going to learn all that, if I am going to dedicate that much of my time and energy to it, I would only do it if I am passionate about it.

8:30 pm: All levels Argentine Tango dance classes on technique & musicality. For students who want to be able to lead and follow comfortably in the embrace, circulate around the floor in the line of dance, do turns, pauses and other necessary maneuvers, and become familiar with Tango music. These classes dedicate detailed attention to all Tango elements. Register online.

Classes program:

Class 1: Walking and posture. Single and double time walk. History of Tango music.

A wisdom that you acquire through training, by working on the way you hold your body, the way you move, paying precise attention to detail, developing a sense of awareness and careful respect in dealings with others at milongas, learning to passionately love the music that milongueros dance to, opening yourself up to music that expertly advises you on how to move in every beat.

This wisdom does not stop there. Milongueras and milongueros, who have been dancing Tango for a long time, who have been developing a familiarity with other milongueros, most of them older, listening to them, taking their advice, learning from them, developing a wisdom, a knowledge, which is at the very least hard, if not impossible, and would ultimately not make sense to explain in words.

Dancing embraced by a milonguera or milonguero is where Tango begins.

It is in the dance of a milonguera or milonguero where you will find her or his wisdom. To learn to dance Tango, which is to learn all about Tango, is an unspeakable enterprise, in which words act mainly as signs that point you in the direction of what you need to see or feel.
Dancing embraced by a milonguera or milonguero is where Tango begins.

Happy birthday, Miranda!!!

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to learn to dance Tango, you can:

Welcome to Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

My name is Marcelo Solis. I was born and raised in Argentina, the same country where Tango was born.
I grew up intimately involved in Argentine Tango and since 1994 it has been my profession in addition to my passion.

Our 8-week training program for beginners is organized in a way that will allow all of you to get to know what Tango is, and eventually make the decision to continue learning this art that is going to change your life and make it a work of art.

Posture and walk, the first 2 items in our list, are the aspects of Tango that can be learned.

Posture and walk, the first 2 items in our list, are the aspects of Tango that can be learned, provided the expertise of a knowledgeable and experience teacher. These elements are also named “technique”. It is through exercises and repetition that we intend for correct technique to become second nature, which will allow you to contemplate the next items on our list.

Awareness of your own body, of your partner, and of the other couples.

Awareness of your own body and its movements, awareness of your partner, in intimate proximity to you, becoming a mirror in which you can discover yourself, and awareness of the other couples dancing on the same dance floor as you, since Tango is a social dance that requires a measure of responsibility regarding those who share the same passion.

Musicality is where your emotions will come into play, and this is what you bring with you to Tango.

Musicality is where your emotions will come into play, and this is what you bring with you to Tango. Music, in general, and Argentine Tango music, in particular, is a language that makes emotions talk. I will share my knowledge and passion for this music with you. I regularly post the most relevant songs on my website, and I offer well crafted and professionally selected tango music that you can purchase here or online.

Argentine Tango makes of the human embrace a work of art.

The last item on the list, embrace, is perhaps the first characteristic of Argentine Tango, the last development that appears in the social partners’ dances, the characteristic that allows us to pin down what Argentine Tango is: the embrace. Argentine Tango makes the human embrace into a work of art.

I want to clarify that this 8-week introductory series for beginners is no more than that, an introduction. If you decide to continue with learning more about Tango, your next step will be the intermediate series, which runs parallel to this series on the following hour.

Also, I must tell you that, if you want to get a real and profound understanding of this form of art, private lessons become necessary.

And also to travel to Buenos Aires and see Tango in its own environment. I regularly organize trips with my students.